Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made a trip back to Texas, to marry Emma Garland Morgan. A few years later he rode in the first Mexican Central train from Mexico City to El Paso, whence he went to New Mexico...
...that the child was a son. Gaily they announced the fact. In distant Japanese villages bonfires were set alight, barelegged, short-jacketed watchmen ran through the streets beating gongs. It was hours before the true facts were learned. Aghast at the error all the officers of Tokyo's central broadcasting station resigned, grimly realized that it was their traditional duty to commit harikari...
Drab, and more acidly Mercuric was Miss Brossow's paper: "Our family was . . . poor as Job's turkey . . . on a farm in what was then the backwoods in Central Wisconsin." To get enough money to go to college she did housework in Kenosha. "Arriving at Northland, I was sadly disappointed (in the buildings) . . . it is rather an honor to work one's own way than otherwise. . . . I have gotten everything out of college but a job. . . . I am financially embarrassed . . . I wonder, have I truly completed my college career 'with honor...
...carload of potted lilies recently went through without a pot broken or a single flower crushed. But its hospitals have long been its especial pride. Most roads maintain a staff of nurses and doctors with emergency stations at important terminals. Only three roads have their own hospitals: the Illinois Central, at Chicago, the Central of Georgia, at Savannah, and the Southern Pacific, at San Francisco (250 beds) and at Houston (125 beds). Last week Edward Stephen Harkness, good angel of many a school and hospital, gave $600,000 to the Southern Pacific to add a wing to the San Francisco...
Prime indication of railroad recovery has been constantly increasing earnings. Another was the recent addition to 20-hour train service between New York and Chicago (TIME, Sept. 23) by the Pennsylvania and the New York Central. Last week there were many announcements that pointed toward railroad prosperity, although famed Stockmarket Bull Arthur W. Cutter was alleged to have indicated that railroad stocks were...